Gun-sight.



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GUN SIGHT.

- APPLICATION FILED HA3. 9, 1910.

Patented July 26, 1910.

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W. L. HALL.

GUN SIGHT.

APPLIUATIOR FILED MAB. 9, 1910.

Patented July 26, 1910.

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GUN -SIGHT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 26, 1916.

Application filed March 9, 1910. Serial No. 548,208.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, VVILLIAM L. I-IALL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Brockton, county of Plymouth, and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Gun-Sights, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in gun sights, and more particularly to a combination rear sight, the object of the invention being to provide two sights upon a single strip, located at the rear of the barrel, and dispensing with the necessity for the ordinary front sight.

A further object is to provide improvements of this character which can be cheaply manufactured, and placed in position on any gun, and which is capable of a wide range of adjustment for different ranges.

With these and other objects in view, the invention consists in certain novel features of construction, and combinations and arrangements of parts as will be more fully hereinafter described and pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings: Figure 1, is a view in side elevation illustrating my improvements in position on a rifle. Fig. 2, is a top plan View. Fig. 3, is a view in longitudinal section, showing the sights in normal position for firin Fig. 1, is a view similar to Fig. 3, showing the parts adjusted for firing at a different range. Fig. 5, is a view similar to Fig. 3, showing the sights folded down. Fig. (3, is an enlarged view in section, on the line 6, 6, of Fig. 3. Fig. 7 is a detail perspective view of the strip 2. Fig. 8, is a detail perspective view of the rear sight. Fig. 9, is a similar view of the forward sight, and Fig. 10, is a similar view of the stepped range slide.

1, represents a rifle or gun of any desired pattern, and 2, is a strip of spring metal forming the support for my improved combination sight. This strip 2, is adapted to be secured to the upper edge of a gun by means of screws 3, one screw being located at the forward end of the strip, and the other about midway the ends of the strip, leaving the rear end free, to be raised and lowered as will hereinafter appear.

Strip 2, is provided near its forward end,

and at its rear end, with perforated ears 4, and 5, respectively. Between the forward ears 4, the forward sight 6, is located, and between the rear ears 5, the rear sight 7 is located. These sights G, and 7, are supported 011 pivot pins 8, mounted in the ears 1, and 5, respectively, which permit the sights to be folded down on the strip 2, or be moved to vertical position.

It will be noted that the sights 6, and 7, are of general triangular form affording wide, flat faces to engage springs 9, secured to strip 2, so as to hold the sights firmly, e ther in a vertical or in a folded down posltion.

The front sight 6, is preferably provided with a notch 10, and the rear sight 7 with an opening 11. The sight 7, on the forward face, adjacent the opening 11, is beveled toward the opening, or in other words, of general conical. form as shown.

Strip 2, at opposite sides, and adjacent the rear sight, is provided with recesses or cutout portions 13, to accommodate the stepped sides of my improved range adjusting slide 15, which lies below strip 2.

In adjusting the sight for different ranges, the operator elevates the rear end of strip 2, and moves slide 15, rearward so that the shoulders 16, at the rear ends or recesses 13, will engage over the steps of the sides 14, and according to the step upon which the shoulders 16, are supported, the desired range may be had.

Various slight changes might be made in the general. form and arrangement of parts described without departing from my invention, and hence I do not limit myself to the precise details set forth, but consider myself at liberty to make such changes and alterations as fairly fall within the spirit and scope of the appended claim.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Lettors Patent is:

A gun sight, comprising a strip of spring metal having recesses in its sides near its rear end, said strip adapted to be secured at its forward end, and at a point between its ends forward of said recesses, a range adjusting slide located below the rear portion of said strip, stepped sides on said slide 10- i ausm a 1 cated in said recesses, ears on sald strip, In testimony whereof I have slgned my front and rear sights plvotally supported 1n name to this spec1ficat10n 1n the presence of sald ears, and adapted to swing down on two subscrlbing Witnesses.

said strip, said sights of triangular form, in WILLIAM L. HALL. 5 cross section, and springs on said strip bear- Witnesses:

ing against flat faces of said sights, substan- LYMAN F. GARFIELD,

tially as described. NATHAN CROSGAL. 

